POVERO Campaign OOC

[ewancummins]

Just tossing out some POVERO compatible ideas that fit that first set of scores and (very roughly) your entertainer concept, Metaflux


What about a human thief who is extremely intelligent but average in other respects (your scores fit that )

He gets a bucket of starting NWPs between high INT and the two free slots I give to replace/offset kits.

Could take :

ventriloquism

Artistic ability: puppets

Carpentry

Information gathering

Observation

Local history

R/W

Etc.

[ewancummins]

If you did go for a puppeteer , I might make some gadget-y stuff available.

http://fistful-minis.blogspot.com/2014_ ... chive.html

Street performers

[alhoon]

Long post, written in a ranting-style because Fild is gloom and depressed. He's not ACTUALLY complaining, he's opening up a ton of possibilities to show that things may be more complicated than "Aldron was a kinda foolish ambitious evil man. The end." that seems to be the prevailing opinion among his enemy houses. Even the watch are scratching their heads and saying "eh... what? Why aren't they doing anything."

[ewancummins]

[ewancummins]

TOM does not know it, but

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Aldron is in fact the head of his family. His father passed away some years ago. He's the youngest head of a major family in the city. By a generation. He does relatives in POVERO. This is all info you guys can get by asking.

[Metaflux]

[dice]0[/dice] Starting Health
[dice]1[/dice]x10 (starting wealth)

[ewancummins]

[dice]226153:0[/dice] Starting Health
[dice]226153:1[/dice]x10 (starting wealth)

No charge for the SPELLBOOK.

[Metaflux]

+1 on the gold roll for wizard, so 30. Almost Finished.

One of the Non proficiency Skills I took was Ancient Language. I'll leave that to your discretion since I don't know what languages would or wouldn't be ancient in Ravenloft.

Also, in the ad&d book, I looked under magic, and it said that the DM determines what spells I start with. My int is 17, and I'm level one.

[Metaflux]

And, character is finished. All I need are the above details, and I can start posting.

...

Actually, how would you prefer I enter the story?

[VAN]

TOM does not know it, but

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Aldron is in fact the head of his family. His father passed away some years ago. He's the youngest head of a major family in the city. By a generation. He does relatives in POVERO. This is all info you guys can get by asking.

Asking whom? The Watch or need gather info roll?

[ewancummins]

TOM does not know it, but

VIEW CONTENT:

Aldron is in fact the head of his family. His father passed away some years ago. He's the youngest head of a major family in the city. By a generation. He does relatives in POVERO. This is all info you guys can get by asking.

Asking whom? The Watch or need gather info roll?

Either might work.

Intelligence gathering will certainly yield that much.
Maybe more, if you leave the WatchHouse and go out to snoop and inquire in different parts of the city.

[ewancummins]

METAFLUX


Let's introduce him right off, this scene.

The Watch has brought him in because (pick just one option):

He works for the Savelle family, and they trust him.

He works for the Holbin family, and they trust him.

He has helped the Watch in the past.

He used to have some connection with the Folbre family but was fired, dismissed, or kicked out.

[ewancummins]

And, character is finished. All I need are the above details, and I can start posting.

...

Actually, how would you prefer I enter the story?

[dice]0[/dice]
+1


For starting spells, how about:

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Read Magic

Shield

Burning Hands

Spider Climb

Four Cantrips (not orisons) from this article:

http://www.frontiernet.net/~jamesstarli ... isons.html

Don't worry about all the optional rules that precede the cantrips. I handle it simply: Cantrip takes up a first level slot and let's you do any four of the effects you know with that one slot, if you fix them beforehand. You can improvise with it instead but that would take up the whole slot for a single effect.)

languages of this part of the world




Ostrona/Ostronic:
The common language of the small states stretching from Povero to Ferrantio.
Closest real-world equivalent: Gothic + Vulgar Latin

Old Ostronic:
A dead language used by scholars
Closest real-world-Equivalent: Gothic

Modronian:
A very old language still spoken in the villages upriver from the small city of Modron.
Closest Real World equivalent: Gallic languages

Brontine:
The native language of the folk of the Abbrontes
Thieves’ Cant in Povero, Ferrantio, and nearby regions employs numerous loan words from this language.
Closest real-world equivalent: Lombardic +Vulgar Latin

Nonhuman-
• Gnomish: spoken by the gnomes who live in the slums and warrens of Rioricco/Ruscellon
• Elvish: not often heard outside the Elven enclaves of the Tanglewood, but some half-elves and human traders know it
• Horn-speak: the language of the Horn-Heads of the Tanglewood
• Chevallese: spoken by the man-horses of the Tanglewood
• Glozza: spoken by the goat-men of the Tanglewood
• Vermic: the language of dragons. No dragons inhabit the lands within at least a hundred miles of Povero, but a species with toxic breath dominated the land in the distant past. Scholars of the natural sciences, especially herbalism and metallurgy, use certain words and concepts derived from the old draconic language. The University at Ferrantio is the only place anywhere near Povero where one may study Vermic.

[Metaflux]

I'll go with this one: He has helped the Watch in the past.

Lowen is the investigative type, though he loves playing the flute.

[ewancummins]

I'll go with this one: He has helped the Watch in the past.

Lowen is the investigative type, though he loves playing the flute.

Cool.

When you feel ready, you can just walk him into the meeting room.
That should let you describe the PC, give you a chance to introduce him to the other characters, learn a bit about what's going on...